News: Gurugram: E-way land hurdle cleared, temple shift awaited-08-03-2021
Gurugram: E-way land hurdle cleared, temple shift awaited
GURUGRAM: After a three-year wait, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has received 0.3 acres needed to build a cloverleaf flyover, which will connect the Dwarka Expressway with NH-8 and the Southern Peripheral Road.
It was earlier this week that the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) handed over the land in Kherki Daula village. The move came close on the heels of Union minister Nitin Gadkari announcing that the Dwarka Expressway stretch passing through the city would be completed by this year.
But construction of the flyover can begin only after a Shani temple is shifted from the site. MCG officials said they hope they will shift it in a month. “We now have all the land required to build the cloverleaf interchange, which is a crucial structure of part 4 of the Dwarka Expressway. The construction, however, cannot begin now as the Shani Mandir is yet to be shifted. We’ve requested MCG not to delay this any further as Nitin Gadkari ji has already committed that this project would be completed in a year’s time,” said an NHAI official.
MCG officials said they had already begun work on shifting the temple. Once the temple is shifted, NHAI would take at least a year to complete the flyover. “We have given the land to NHAI and they can begin work on the flyover. Only the shifting of the Shani Mandir remains and that too shall be completed by the end of this month,” said an MCG official.
NHAI officials hope moving the temple elsewhere will not take as long as shifting of the cremation ground did.
